Beschrijving
Bust-length portrait of Casimir Pierre Périer, looking to the right. Casimir-Pierre Périer (1777-1832) was a prominent French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman.
Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 271 x 181 mm., platemark 227 x 148 mm. Engraved by Joseph Caron after Louis Hersent and published in: Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye. Livre des orateurs. Parijs: L.A. Pagnerre, 1842.
Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron (1797-1867) was a French printmaker.
Louis Hersent (10 March 1777 – 2 October 1860)[1] was a French painter, born in Paris. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1797. In the Salon of 1802, he showed Metamorphosis of Narcissus, and he continued to exhibit with rare interruptions up to 1831.
In excellent condition.
